Lee/Castley leadership deserves a go

If the Canberra Liberals want to ensure they spend another four years in opposition, having lost next year’s October election, they should definitely adopt the suggestion from Helen Jones (Letters, 7 December) and install Mark Parton as leader. That is not meant as a slight on Mr Parton, he is well known and an effective local politician, although I haven’t really seen much of him in Brindabella since the last election.

Voters simply like leadership stability. One only needs to remind themselves of the chaos of the Rudd-Gillard-Rudd-Abbott-Turnbull-Morrison revolving door of leadership federally to know it’s not a great outcome for anyone.

A look at Elizabeth Lee’s social media pages, along with ongoing coverage of the Canberra Liberals and their alternative policy positions, outlined in various local publications, would seem to suggest she is doing quite a fine job promoting and leading her party. The Lee/Castley leadership team deserve the opportunity to lead their party to the next local election.

• Chris Doyle, Gordon

Bill a Narrabundah College alumnus

Always read Bill Stefaniak’s ‘Fit the Bill’ with great interest. I, too, look forward to the Kumuls playing in the NRL. Very comforting to read that Bill went to Narrabundah College and played junior rugby league for South Canberra. I always pictured Bill at a rugby union game, private school old boy’s tie on, wearing a tweed jacket with leather elbow patches sipping wine while clapping a good push in a scrum. But now I can see him at a Canberra Stadium, doing the Viking clap, cheering on the Raiders and bagging the referee while drinking a can of VB.

• Paul Daley, Gowrie

Re: Plea for Lee to step aside

Helen Jones’ letter (CW 7 December) suggesting it’s time for Elizabeth Lee to stand down as leader of the Liberals and for her to be replaced by Mark Parton is a lovely romantic notion, interesting but not that practical or efficient. The Libs leader, female or male, needs to be a pit-bull if we are to be pulled by the scruff of our necks from the deep Kimberly mine pit of economic disaster the Barr government has sent us derailing into. There needs to be, at the helm of opposition, a pit-bull, not a former radio personality. You need sting, courage and economic/management smarts.

• John Lawrence, Flynn

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